中国人民大学第26期科学-社会-人文论坛
报告题目： Actions as events

报告人：徐明
武汉大学哲学院教授
评论人：刘壮虎
北京大学哲学系教授
主持人：刘晓力
中国人民大学哲学院教授 

时间： 4月26日（周一）下午3：00-5：00
地点：中国人民大学人文楼6层会议室（电梯对面）

报告人简介：

徐明，武汉大学哲学院博士生导师、教授。美国匹兹堡大学(University of Pittsburgh)博士。受聘武大前，曾在美国的西弗吉尼亚大学 (West Virginia University)、匹兹堡大学和印地安纳大学 (Indiana University at Bloomington) 任过临时教职，还在美国的一家软件公司任职数年。主要学术兴趣为哲学逻辑、形而上学和语言哲学。主要学术作品有：Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World (Oxford University Press, 2001; 与 N. Belnap 和 M. Perloff 合著) 以及在国际学术期刊上发表的关于modal logic, tense logic, conditional logic, deontic logic, logic of agency, causation, action 的若干论文。

报告摘要：

We present a theory of actions based on a theory of events in branching time, in which “particular” or “token” actions are taken to be sets of transitions from their initial states to the outcomes. We also present a simple theory of event composition by which composite events can be formed out of other events. Various kinds of group actions, including instantaneous group actions and sequential group actions, are introduced by applying event composition, and an extended stit theory of agency is proposed, in which the stit operators are combined or equipped with reified group actions.

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